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#1 I was born in Lewiston, a small town in western New York, to conservative, devout Catholic parents. I was at the hub of the town because I worked in my father’s drugstore from the age of four. I was labeled eccentric by my mother.
#2 I worked at a drugstore as a child, and I was exposed to situations that were unusual for a child. I never had a meal at home, and I was surrounded by adults. My peer group became my coworkers.
#3 I loved working with Roy, the pharmacist, because he was always in a good mood, and he made me feel like I was important. He never put off a good time, yet he always got his work done.
#4 At 10:30 A. M. on Saturdays, all the employees had a break. We sat around the large red Coke cooler where the ice had melted and fished out our Cokes. I liked looking at things Roy-style, and when I was four, my mother taught me to read. Roy had been all over the United States.

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	03 mai 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781669397496
Langue	English
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#1

I visited Tolkien in his home in 1967. He was smaller than I expected, but still very tall. His house was ordinary and suburban, and smelled of books and tobacco smoke.

#2

I was nervous that there would be harder questions, and that I would not be able to answer them. But he spoke in complex sentences, and never hesitated. I was often unsure what he was saying, but I tried to stay engaged and listen carefully.

#3

I visited Tolkien in his house, and he explained to me his mythology. He was a professor of English, and he looked like the archetypal Oxford don. But he was not. He was a strange spirit who had taken on the guise of an elderly professor.
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#1

The wedding of Mabel Suffield was a dividing point in her life. She was going to South Africa to marry Arthur Tolkien, a man 13 years her senior. Her father would not allow a formal betrothal for two years because of her youth, so they could only exchange letters secretly.

#2

Mabel and Arthur were married in Cape Town in 1891, and spent their honeymoon in a hotel at nearby Sea Point. They then traveled to the capital of the Orange Free State, Bloemfontein, which was little more than a small town in 1891.

#3

Mabel was pregnant, and she and Arthur were happy together. But they were not allowed to visit England until they had been in Bloemfontein for another three years.

#4

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa, on 31 January 1892. He was christened in Bloemfontein Cathedral, and his parents had him photographed in the garden of Bank House. His mother was in excellent health, while his father, always something of a dandy, posed in a positively jaunty manner.

#5

Mabel was pregnant again in 1894, and gave birth to another son named Hilary Arthur Reuel. Hilary was a healthy child who thrived in the Bloemfontein climate, but his brother was not doing well. Ronald was sturdy and handsome, but he was not doing well.

#6

In 1895, Mabel took her two sons to England. They spent the spring and summer there, and in November, Arthur contracted rheumatic fever. He was reported to be still in poor health in January 1896, and Mabel decided that she must go back to Bloemfontein and care for him.

#7

I am so glad I am coming back to see you, it has been a long time since I came away from you. I hope the ship will bring us all back to you. I know you will be very glad to receive a letter from your little Ronald.

#8

When the first state of shock was over, Mabel Tolkien knew that she must make decisions. She and the two boys could not stay forever in her parents’ crowded little suburban villa, but she had no money to establish an independent household. She began to search for cheap accommodation.

#9

Ronald learned about his family’s history from his aunt, who told him stories about the Tolkiens’ ancestors, who were said to have come to England in 1756 to escape the Prussian invasion of Saxony.

#10

The Tolkien family moved to Sarehole, a small village near Birmingham, in 1896. The effect on Ronald was deep and permanent. He found himself in the English countryside, close to the city, but traffic was limited to the occasional farm cart or tradesman’s wagon.

#11

Ronald and his brother were often picked on by the local children, who made fun of their middle-class accents and clothes. But they made friends with the local children, and learned the local vocabulary.

#12

Ronald’s love of dragons was apparent at an early age. He began to compose his own story about a dragon when he was about seven, and he found solace in the Sarehole countryside. He was also drawn to Catholicism, which his mother began to practice.

#13

Mabel had been thinking about becoming a Catholic for some time. She and her sons moved to Birmingham, where she found a house to rent. She was too poor to afford the train fare or the trams, so she had to walk much of the way to school with her sons.

#14

When Ronald went to school in Birmingham, he was extremely homesick. He was used to the quiet countryside, and he missed his friends and family. He began to love the railway sounds and sights, though.

#15

The Tolkiens’ life in Birmingham was not easy. They were living in a house that was only one degree better than a slum, and around them were mean side-streets. Their sons were not doing well at St Philip’s School, and they had to remove Ronald from there.

#16

Ronald was placed in the Sixth Class, half way up the school. He was learning Greek. His form master, George Brewerton, was a medievalist who recited the Canterbury Tales to his students in the original Middle English.

#17

The New Year did not start well for the family. Mabel was diagnosed with diabetes, and the boys were sent to stay with relatives. They went to Rednal, a few miles beyond the Birmingham boundary, and lived with their mother and Father Francis Morgan.

#18

After their mother’s death, Ronald and Hilary had to find somewhere to live. They went to live with an aunt by marriage who had a room to let in Birmingham.

#19

Ronald had a very close relationship with his aunt, Beatrice Suffield, who gave him and his brother board and lodging. But she was deficient in affection, and she showed little understanding of the boys’ state of mind.

#20

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